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From: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:52:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8B14AB.3020707@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0908182125590.3361@localhost.localdomain>


Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> diff --git a/include/linux/clockchips.h b/include/linux/clockchips.h
>> index 3a1dbba..8154bc6 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/clockchips.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/clockchips.h
>> @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ enum clock_event_nofitiers {
>>  struct clock_event_device {
>>  	const char		*name;
>>  	unsigned int		features;
>> -	unsigned long		max_delta_ns;
>> -	unsigned long		min_delta_ns;
>> +	unsigned long long	max_delta_ns;
>> +	unsigned long long	min_delta_ns;
> 
> Can we please use u64 for this ?

John brought this up as well. There was some discussion sometime back 
about this. I did get some feedback that u64 was a different type 
between ppc64 and x86-64 which was causing problems with printk. The 
above variables are also used with printk in the kernel today.

See the following email:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124041426203283&w=2

I am not sure if this is still the case and safer to stick with 
long-long for now. Let me know your thoughts.

Cheers
Jon









  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-18 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-18 17:45 [PATCH 0/2] Dynamic Tick: Enabling longer sleep times on 32-bit machines Jon Hunter
2009-08-18 17:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] Dynamic Tick: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle Jon Hunter
2009-08-18 17:45   ` [PATCH 2/2] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds Jon Hunter
2009-08-18 19:26     ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-18 20:52       ` Jon Hunter [this message]
2009-11-13 19:50     ` [tip:timers/core] nohz: " tip-bot for Jon Hunter
2009-08-18 19:25   ` [PATCH 1/2] Dynamic Tick: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-18 20:42     ` Jon Hunter
2009-11-13 19:49   ` [tip:timers/core] nohz: " tip-bot for Jon Hunter
2009-11-11 20:43 ` [PATCH 0/2] Dynamic Tick: Enabling longer sleep times on 32-bit machines john stultz
2009-11-11 20:57   ` Jon Hunter
2009-11-11 22:37     ` john stultz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-28  0:00 [PATCH 0/2] Dynamic Tick: Enabling longer sleep times on 32-bit Jon Hunter
2009-07-28  0:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] Dynamic Tick: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle Jon Hunter
2009-07-28  0:00   ` [PATCH 2/2] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds Jon Hunter
2009-05-27 14:49 Jon Hunter
2009-05-27 18:16 ` john stultz

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